Originally Posted by
kwigibo
Attempted is a key word there. The Big Day Out is also a privately run event, they can set whatever terms of entry they want, and that was clearly a case of grasping at straws trying to find something they could do to deter 'patriotic' violence.
'White' Australians most certainly do form gangs, they were the people leading that 'patriotic' beating. And just because you say so, it is not the least bit true that robberies or bashing is limited to any ethnicity. You mention beatings carried out against ethnic minorities by white gangs, you contradict yourself.
And why is it that gang rape is always committed by gangs (ethnic or not)? Why is it never just one guy by himself committing that crime?
This is just classic ingroup/outgroup bias. Humans have a seemingly innate tendency to filter information about those that are perceived to be like or unlike themselves. Those in the ingroup that do 'bad' things are seen as an exception, while those seen as different, the outgroup, that do 'bad' things are seen as indicative of their group. Likewise, 'good' actions are seen as the exception for the outgroup, and indicative of the whole for the ingroup.
All the difficulties I've experienced in my life that were not my own fault, have been caused by white people, including crime. Even so, I don't then conclude that white people, culturally or genetically or otherwise, are as a whole more predisposed to good or bad than other ethnicities. It would be prejudiced to do that with any group of people..
Vilifying large groups of people over the wrongly or rightly perceived shortcomings of individuals, who for whatever wholly arbitrary reason are included in said groups, is what's wrong with this country, in my opinion.